The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-22

the National Treasury, and we denounce
any attempt to abolish the tax on liquors
Tor the purpose of keeping up the present
UNJUST, unequal and onerous tariff system.
we call attention to, and affirm as sound
doctrines and policy, the following EN-
phatic and patriotic language of President
Cleveland: Our public domain is our ma
uonal wealth, the earnest Of our growth and
the heritage of our people. 1t should prom
lse llmltless development and rich
ness, relief to crowding population
and a5nd homes to thrift and industry.
These inestimable advantages should be
lealously guarded, and a careful and en-
llghtened policy on the part of the govern
ment should secure them to the people, we
demand that all the lands of the govern
ment be held for actual settlers who are
citizens of the United States, and for those
VINO declare their intention to become such.
SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.
I'VE are in hearty sympathy with all
people struggling to free themselves from
the environments of despotism, and espec-
Tally does the long and gallant struggle of
Ireland for the priceless boon of home rule
and the rights of manhood evoke our warm
est applause and command our heartiest
good wishes for speedy success.
Labor, being the chief factor and the
great cOnServator of free and liberal inSti-
| tutions, should enjoy its full share of the
common benefits derived therefrom There
fore we favor such restraints of centraliZa-
ton and encroachment of corporate power
as will bring the best possible protection to
honest labor and at the same time conserve
the interests of honestly employed capital
I'VE favor such legislation on the ques-
ton of immigration as will prevent the
landing, for permanent residence, of aliens
who are not willing to declare their inten-
ton of becoming citizens of the United
States. We declare our opposition to the
importation of contract labor, and we de-
mand the speedy punishment of all persons
melting revolution against republican in
stitutiOnS.
STATE POLITICS.
eve denounce the present Republican
State administration as weak, partisan, per-
sonal and unbusiness like. We call upon
the people of Ohio to turn out of power
State government whose only apparent
mission is to augment expenditures, multi
ply offices, create deficiencies and increase
taxation, with bankruptcy of the treasury
as the ultimate result. We de
nounce the late Republican Legislature
for its cowardly and hypocritical
alliance through intrigue with the Repubi-
can Board of Public Works and the Repub-
lican Attorney General, in the scheme
whereby millions of dollars worth of prop
erty of the State is to be transferred to
corporations interested in creating a mon
opoly of transportation without the State
or the people thereof receiving any benefits
therefrom.
1--WE demand the fullest safeguards for the
ballot box, punishment of all who seek to
corrupt it, and the enactment of law
making it a felony for corporations, capi-
talists and employers to intimidate or at
tempt to control the political action of
their employees.
HOME RULE FAVORED.
'eWe favor home rule in the management
| and control of municipal affairs and de-
nounce the partisan acts passed by the late
| Republican Legislature to subserve the inter
estS of scheming politicians, and we demand
the repeal of all laws which deprive electors
| of the exercise of their constitutional privi-
| leges.
1.-THE commercial and industrial interests
of the State require that equal use of trans
| poItation facilities be secured to all on
| equal terms, and we demand that favorite-
ism by common carriers and the employ
ment of corporate franchises to foster mo-
nopolies and oppress the people be prohib-
| tied by law, and that pools, combinations,
trusts, or conspiracies to corner or forestall
the market, and to fetter or crush free com
petition, be suppressed by legislation.
RESTRICTION FAVORED.
''We declare in favor of restriction of
| the LIQUOR traffic, and believe it to be the
duty of all good citizens to aid in reducing
| to a minimum the evils resulting therefrom
! and to this end we favor the submission of
an amendment to the constitution providing
| for the license of such traffic"